The following pages entitled The Carpenter Affair are taken from http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/ ED.

In March, 1995, Leah Haley and Marc
Davenport had a speaking engagement at the Tampa Unity Church in Tampa,
Florida. The couple regularly shared the controversial views they held at the
time on such matters as aliens, multiple dimensions and military abductions.

Kurt Loft of The Tampa
Tribune-Times wrote a piece on the scheduled event. Loft's article, UFO
Enthusiasts to Describe Out-of-This-World Adventures, was published in the
March 5, 1995, edition of the newspaper.

Loft summarized the claims and
perspectives of Haley and Davenport and sought statements from other applicable
sources. Major David Thurston, identified by Loft as a spokesman for the Air
Force in Washington, provided comment. He explained the Pentagon did not take
such claims seriously.

Fair enough. I would certainly
expect Thurston to have accurately represented the policies and stances of his
employer.

Loft also sought comment from Tom
Deuley of MUFON. Loft wrote:

The Pentagon scoffs at the accusations, said Maj. David
Thurston, a spokesman for the Air Force in Washington.

"I don't want to dignify such
charges with a comment," he said. "I will say the Air Force
isn't in the business of kidnapping the citizens of this country."

Nor does the Mutual UFO Network,
which publishes the UFO Journal in Seguin, Texas, embrace Haley's abduction
stories--either by aliens or the military.

"I would advise people to
listen very closely to their lecture and apply some common sense to what they
hear," said Tom Deuley of the Network, which has more than 5,200
members. "We feel very embarrassed that UFOs are the vehicle for
people making a living. When people tell such ridiculous stories, it doesn't help
the serious scientific work being done."

Lieutenant Commander Thomas P.
Deuley, US Navy, Retired, has an impressive resume and long history in ufology.
One of his many bios circulating through the UFO
community states he holds an engineering degree from Auburn and a degree in
advertising from San Antonio College. He has a diverse background in
military affairs including security and intelligence. A former National Security Agency employee, Deuley
has presented information to the UFO community on a variety of topics.

Deuley is a long time member of the
MUFON board of directors. He also held key positions within additional UFO
organizations and resulting projects, including the Fund for UFO Research, the
UFO Research Coalition and the ill fated Ambient Monitoring Project, a program
drawing substantial criticism, among other reasons, for its lack of
transparency.

At the time, March 5, 1995, Loft
suggested in The Tampa Trib, evidently based upon comments provided by
Deuley, that neither MUFON nor its Journal embraced such abduction
stories, little could have been further from correct. The facts of the matter
were if we need any documentation MUFON has a long history of supporting such
stories, we need look no farther than the very MUFON Journal suggested
to oppose such claims.

In actuality, the 1995 February and April editions of the Journal
carried a column written by then MUFON director of abduction research,
John Carpenter. The column, Abduction Notes, was regularly published in
the Journal and clearly promoted and endorsed claims of abduction, both
alien and military.

As a matter of fact, in February,
1995, Carpenter wrote that John Mack brought attention to the “reality of UFO
abductions.” Carpenter went on in the same column to endorse Streiber's Communion
and Hopkins' Intruders.

The April, 1995, installment of Abduction
Notes published in the MUFON Journal saw Carpenter writing about the
importance of providing professional support to alien abductees. Combined
with Deuley's virtually simultaneous and particularly critical comments on such
matters, the situation could reasonably be interpreted as an outrageously
ironic contradiction in MUFON policy. Clearly, the MUFON stance was not
entirely and accurately represented in The Trib.

Perhaps most insulting of all to
Leah Haley, Deuley apparently failed to inform Loft it was
Deuley's fellow MUFON director, John Carpenter, who originally personally
assisted and encouraged Haley in forming and cultivating her ideas via
hypnosis about aliens and military personnel in the first place. The article
also failed to accurately portray the role MUFON director Donald Ware played in
the situation. Ware participated in the Eglin expedition, a hike in
which a US Air Force base was searched for the site of an allegedly downed
alien craft Haley was once supposed to have been aboard. What's more, it was
Ware who originally suggested they undertake the remarkable hike and search.
The very organization in which Leah sought help, hesitantly yet trustfully following
their paradigm-shifting concepts and suggestions that included a year of
hypnotic regression sessions, threw her under the bus on the pages of The
Tampa Tribune-Times.

More facts of the matter include
Haley was not “making a living” at sharing her story as Deuley suggested. Far
from it, actually.

In her book, Unlocking Alien Closets, pages 181-182, Haley
addressed the Loft article. Among other points presented, she detailed her personal
finances which clearly demonstrated her activities in the UFO community were
severely detrimental - and by no means beneficial - to money matters. Haley
further stated that to the best of her recollection, she never so much as met
Tom Deuley.

I emailed Deuley to try to learn
more. I informed him I write a UFO-related blog and I provided a link. I stated
I am writing about the Leah Haley Case and asked if I may ask him some
questions.

Two similar requests were sent to
the MUFON email address of Robert Swiatek, another long time MUFON board member
who has previously posted comment here at The UFO Trail. The emails to
Swiatek were not answered.

Multiple emails were also sent to
MUFON board member Marie Malzahn at two different email addresses on file here
at The 'Trail. I requested permission to ask her some questions about
current MUFON policy and no replies were received.

Deuley replied he would be glad to
entertain questions but advised he did not recall much about the Haley case. He
added maybe the questions would be reminders.

On January 9, 2012, I emailed Deuley
a summary of the Loft article and situation as described above, as well as reference
to the Carpenter Affair. I thanked him for his willingness to entertain
questions and stated I would appreciate comments at his convenience.

I asked what he would say to
people who might question the hypocrisy of him speaking on behalf of MUFON and
criticizing Haley, when it was his very MUFON peer, Carpenter, who originally
encouraged and promoted her then-beliefs. I asked, most importantly, how might
he expect Leah Haley to feel about it.

I also
requested Deuley state his stance on MUFON chapters continuing to promote and conduct regressive hypnosis as a
memory retrieval tool.

I
requested Deuley explain, as a long time MUFON board member and considering the
mission of the organization to conduct scientific research, how he feels about
the MUFON tendencies to provide public platforms to such self-described
researchers as the late Budd Hopkins and others who use hypnosis as a primary
tool of investigation. I asked Deuley to clarify his stance on David Jacobs
being recently provided a public platform at MUFON LA. I also requested Deuley
state his stance on MUFON chapters continuing to promote and conduct regressive
hypnosis as a memory retrieval tool.

I asked if he would please comment on his recollections of how the
MUFON board of directors handled the Carpenter Affair. I inquired
whether Deuley was pleased or dissatisfied with MUFON actions, and what he
thought was most important about the entire series of events.

I referenced how former MUFON international
director James Carrion was quite outspoken about his interpretations the
intelligence community plays a significant role in ufology, including the manipulation
of MUFON. I further referenced how Clifford Clift made comments to a similar
effect, even if the two men imply one another were more part of the problem
than not. I then asked Deuley if he thinks MUFON was ever, at any time either
formerly or currently, covertly infiltrated by the intelligence community.

As of this post, I have
received no further emails or responses from Tom Deuley.

Accountability

To clarify, I do not oppose
Deuley's implications ufology could use more critical thinking. Of
course it could.

I take issue with MUFON board
members holding conflicting perspectives while each claiming and/or
implying to be acting on behalf of the organization, especially when it results
in an individual, Haley, publicly criticized who was assured help and did
as she was suggested. I also take issue with said board members being
unaccountable for the behavior. I further take issue with members of the
MUFON board of directors continuing to refuse to commit to a stance or even so
much as address the issues, particularly concerning the use of hypnosis as a
memory retrieval tool.

Concerning MUFON providing platforms
to individuals who use hypnosis as a primary investigative tool, Mr. MacDonald
stated he has "no problem" with chapters hosting speakers making
presentations on any "investigative procedure," including hypnosis.
The problem with that, Mr. MacDonald, is the professional research
community does not recognize hypnosis as an investigative procedure. This
includes the academic/scientific community. The medical industry,
which includes mental health professionals, does not recognize
hypnosis as an investigative procedure, either. That is because, to overstate
what should be the obvious yet remains chronically elusive, it is not
an investigative procedure.

None of that would
be particularly significant if it were not for the facts the Mutual UFO
Network is a nonprofit public charity and claims to be dedicated to the
scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity. It is not a private
corporation or a hypnosis society. Neither is it dedicated to promoting
inaccurate information subject to the best ticket draw and at the emotional
sacrifice of those who approach it for advertised investigative and
support services - even though it may appear that way much more often
than not.

As we proceed with the exploration
of the Leah Haley Case, let us please remember the key issues. Let us not
be swayed by those who try to distract our attention from the most
significant facts.

Leah Haley was
hypnotized repeatedly throughout 1991 by a MUFON director, John
Carpenter, inducing emotional upheaval and beliefs she was traumatically
abducted again and again by a variety of alien and human perpetrators. She
was guided by another MUFON director, Lieutenant Colonel Donald Ware,
through an expedition of a US Air Force Base, supposedly searching for a
site an alien craft was downed with her aboard and as suggested during one
of the many hypnosis sessions. Her case file and the files of 139
other alleged abductees were released by Carpenter to Robert Bigelow and
his military intelligence associates, as reportedly confirmed by Colonel John Alexander and
cited in the previous post.

Those are facts. What the facts may
indicate is open to interpretation and justifies further research. As I
have stated all along, I do not claim to have conclusions.

Haley believes she somehow
became involved in covert research operations. As I have
written, Haley's case may, at worst, be indicative of covert
psychological operations in which any number of people were manipulated and
deceived. At best, Haley's story is the saga of a woman who sought the services
of organizations and individuals claiming to provide quality, scientific
investigation and healthy emotional support - and those organizations and
individuals simply lied, be it out of ignorance, incompetence, deception or
combinations thereof.

I would hope the UFO community
would take note of such occurrences and be interested in improving
its performance. Unfortunately, I have little reason to currently believe that
is the case.

Haley's situation, extraordinary as
it may seem, is actually not as unique as it may initially appear. It
just happens to be relatively high profile. Think about it.

There is the Emma Woods situation.
There is the Carol Rainey films and information. Let us not forget there are no
less than 139 others directly involved in the Carpenter Affair. I am personally
and directly aware of individuals who contacted MUFON, a public nonprofit
corporation purportedly dedicated to scientific research, for assistance in
understanding their strange experiences and were abruptly referred to
hypnotists. Some of these individuals have since decided the hypnosis sessions
were unhelpful in identifying actuality, traumatic and quite harmful to
their emotional well being and mental health.

I invite you to ask yourself if
you will support and enable those who rationalize such circumstances,
trying to dilute the significance of damage being inflicted.
Accountability is in order - not excuses.